General Tso's Chicken Chinese New Year Celebration
General Tso’s chicken with a twist, fantastic authentic egg rolls, and a collection of fun ideas for celebrating the Chinese New Year, and the Year of the Sheep!
Servings: 4
Calories: 650kcal
Ingredients
- 2-3 lbs of chicken cut into bite sized pieces
- 1 egg
- 1 tbs water
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 Tbs ground ginger
Sauce
- 1/3 cup soy sauce
- 1/3 cup rice wine not rice wine vinegar
- 1 Tbs white vinegar
- 2 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp red curry paste
- a pinch of crushed red pepper flakes
- 3 Tbs minced garlic
- 1/3 cup pineapple juice
- 1/2 inch fresh ginger root chopped really small
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 2 Tbs corn starch
- Vegetables of choice
Caramel Sauce
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees
- Cut chicken into bite sized pieces
- Whisk 1 tbs of water and egg together, and coat chicken pieces with the egg
- In a plastic bag, mix together the flour, pepper, salt, and ground ginger
- Take chicken pieces coated in egg and dredge in the flour mixture
- Get a cookie sheet and put a cooling rack on top, then place chicken pieces on top of cooling rack, and spray with cooking spray.
- Bake for 15 minutes, flip half way through, then turn oven on to broil, and broil 2 minutes per side to crisp up the chicken.
- While chicken is cooking, in a large bowl, mix together the sauce ingredients, except the corn starch
- In a heavy sauce pan, stir together sugars and water and bring to a boil, stir constantly until sugar melts, then remove from heat right away (Should be a caramel like mixture)
- Pour into sauce mixture, and stir together. Then whisk in the corn starch to thicken
- Put in a pan with vegetables of choice (Sugar snap peas or broccoli) and sautee for 1-2 minutes, then put cooked chicken in, toss to coat and serve over rice!
Nutrition
Calories: 650kcal | Carbohydrates: 88g | Protein: 27g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 122mg | Sodium: 1766mg | Potassium: 424mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 54g | Vitamin A: 1020IU | Vitamin C: 5.6mg | Calcium: 66mg | Iron: 4mg